Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seventh Army in West Germany, effective instrument of close-in engagement, works at the diverse, contradictory problems of cold-war alertness in the nuclear age. The Seventh has to be ready, perhaps for years to come, for instant attack from the nuclear-armed U.S.S.R. land and air forces poised across the border. It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area. Senior officers roam distant outposts to make unannounced tests of how fast and accurately the outposts could report a Russian tank attack to Army headquarters...
...heavily on Mimi's buck teeth-belongs to the Keith-Orpheum circuit of three decades ago. In a way, they are so bad that they are disarming. There is a youthful nice-kid quality about them, and an innocent gaiety that captivates audiences: Ford and Hines were an instant national hit when Jack Paar gave them a guest shot last August...
...nuclear charge is exploded 100 million miles from the earth, it will release all kinds of radiation at the same instant. According to relativity theory, the waves should still be traveling together when they reach the earth nine minutes later. But if gamma rays, for instance, prove to travel measurably faster than infrared through the vacuum of space, relativity, the supreme law of the universe, will have to be revised...
...Service sets up mobile tracking stations on various islands. When Vanguard I passes overhead, the trackers determine its bearing at an exact time, in microseconds. Stations on the mainland, which have been following the satellite for a year, can calculate Vanguard's position in space at the instant when it was observed from the island. From this information the position of the island can be charted. As a result, points on Wake, Guam and Kwajalein have been found to be almost one mile out of position. The islands are being replotted with a maximum possible error of less than...
...Instant Money." Every day banks are sprouting new gimmicks to lure credit customers. Taking a cue from the successful Diners' Club (TIME, Sept. 22), some 200 banks have shuffled themselves into the credit-card game. Last week Georgia's ten hard-selling Citizens & Southern National Banks popped out the latest variation, advertised "Instant MONEY-Cash Loans Within 20 Seconds." The C. & S. device is a charge card that enables one to draw immediate cash up to thousands of dollars from any C. & S. teller's window, or to charge consumer goods at 1,000 Georgia stores...